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BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
State attitudes still vary, like Iowa or w/e is way more tolerant of them than NY

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BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
update on my "woke libs resisting violence" struggle

quote:

I agree that this is a very important conversation to have.

Active nonviolence doesn't mean avoiding conflict. At times it actively seeks out confrontation to expose the inherent violence in institutions and situations. It is not being passive. However, for me, and for many others, a commitment to nonviolence means not retaliating with violence. At the same time, people choose nonviolence for a variety of reasons, practical, strategic and for some of us moral.

All the discussion about this new coalition I have heard has stressed building a mass bass, nonviolence and democracy. The organizations that have signed on so far have presumably done so based on those principles and all the outreach that I have seen has emphasized them. If they are being questioned, then I would suggest there should be no further outreach until the issues are clarified.

It did raise questions for me that Antifa had signed on, given my understanding that they are explicitly not committed to nonviolence and I have understood that to be fundamental to the Coalition.


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
upside: iso is on my side with this and i'm going to get together with them before the next general meeting and hash out a group argument so that we can present a united front against these lib motherfuckers

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
It did raise questions for me that Antifa had signed on, given my understanding that they are explicitly not committed to nonviolence and I have understood that to be fundamental to the Coalition.


ahahahahahahaha

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Al! posted:

It did raise questions for me that Antifa had signed on, given my understanding that they are explicitly not committed to nonviolence and I have understood that to be fundamental to the Coalition.


ahahahahahahaha

my first reaction was "im gonna punch you in the mouth and see how you respond" but i didnt send that email

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

my first reaction was "im gonna punch you in the mouth and see how you respond" but i didnt send that email

i bet antifa didnt raise questions until the media decided it had been long enough since trump said many sides for them to start saying many sides again

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Al! posted:

i bet antifa didnt raise questions until the media decided it had been long enough since trump said many sides for them to start saying many sides again

Ehhhhh it's a fairly new coalition, only had like three meetings total. And this is the first time the actual discussion has come up

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
Also worth noting that I privately suggested I reach out to wobblies and redneck revolt about joining so that we can stack the deck and drown out the libs

Bullfrog
Nov 5, 2012

John Brown Militia sucks. A lot. Avoid them.

John Brown Gun Club is totally unrelated to them, they are good.

So is Redneck Revolt.

And Huey Newton Gun Club.

So is Socialist Rifle Association (I've done work with them).

Austin Red Guard is Maoist (there's a lot of MLM / maoist groups in texas for some reason). They're ok, but don't play well with others.

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

update on my "woke libs resisting violence" struggle



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They've been forced fed a lie that staying passive means they're protected, but history will disabuse then of that notion. Things to mention:

Allende's chile -> pinochet shooting leftist in football stadiums

Killing fields of Indonesia -> approx 3 million suspected communists and ethnic chinese were massacred, the perps having no reprecussions, and to this day still talking about how happy they were to do it

Of course wiemar republic -> nazis

Then

Point out that the uk left India because they knew they'd get killed of they didn't, behind Gandhi were a lot of very violent people, and also point out that MLK was tarred as violent, but that the current liberal sanitized image of him is 100% the result of a ideological campaign to write Malcolm X out of history entirely

cargo cult
Aug 28, 2008

by Reene
anyone have that image of the last supper with (((echos)) around everyone seated

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

rudatron posted:

They've been forced fed a lie that staying passive means they're protected, but history will disabuse then of that notion.

look at this guy who thinks they form arguments based on anything like logic

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
It's not necessarily conscious 'logic', an explicitly endorsed position - that would imply a level of self-awareness that I don' think liberals possess. It's an emotional relationship. They want things to change, they want to feel safe, and they've been forced fed a lie that acting like cattle is going to change anything in this world, that if you stand around and wait then things will get better.

The only way to break them out of that, is to make it understood to them that that is not the case - changing the world for the better will mean taking on the centers of power, who can and will use deadly force to secure themselves, even if that is at the expense of everyone else or the planet as a whole.

Until they feel that truth, until they truly understand it, and act as if it were the case, they will continue to act like cattle.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 28 days!)

Libs Love Logic

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

rudatron posted:

It's not necessarily conscious 'logic', an explicitly endorsed position - that would imply a level of self-awareness that I don' think liberals possess. It's an emotional relationship. They want things to change, they want to feel safe, and they've been forced fed a lie that acting like cattle is going to change anything in this world, that if you stand around and wait then things will get better.

The only way to break them out of that, is to make it understood to them that that is not the case - changing the world for the better will mean taking on the centers of power, who can and will use deadly force to secure themselves, even if that is at the expense of everyone else or the planet as a whole.

Until they feel that truth, until they truly understand it, and act as if it were the case, they will continue to act like cattle.

the term is sheeple dude

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Libs Love Logic

love to be pedantic

LordSaturn
Aug 12, 2007

sadly unfunny

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

look at this guy who thinks they form arguments based on anything like logic

I mean, it's a well-known principle that libs are excited to debate anything, and you don't have to convince the lib, you have to convince the audience...

EDIT: Get a nice crisp suit and a fresh haircut beforehand.

LordSaturn has issued a correction as of 05:44 on Sep 8, 2017

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe
nonviolence worked ok for Gandhi also because the British didn't hold the position of desiring to just murder all Indians

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

lancemantis posted:

nonviolence worked ok for Gandhi also because the British didn't hold the position of desiring to just murder all Indians

Gandhi was taking quite a chance betting on England's vanity and greed to keep them from going full-Leopold IV on India. British domination of India was a brutal affair, and they'd resorted to naked force more than once.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Bullfrog posted:

John Brown Militia sucks. A lot. Avoid them.

John Brown Gun Club is totally unrelated to them, they are good.

So is Redneck Revolt.

And Huey Newton Gun Club.

So is Socialist Rifle Association (I've done work with them).

Austin Red Guard is Maoist (there's a lot of MLM / maoist groups in texas for some reason). They're ok, but don't play well with others.
Austin Red Guard is how not to antifa.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Gandhi was taking quite a chance betting on England's vanity and greed to keep them from going full-Leopold IV on India. British domination of India was a brutal affair, and they'd resorted to naked force more than once.

Also, the independence campaigns included active sabotage of British infrastructure and mass civil disobedience, effectively rendering the country ungovernable. In the middle of World War II.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Playing the Allies in Empire of the Sun makes you hate Gandhi with the passion of a thousand suns

:goonsay:

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
I don't know why Texas and Maoists go together, but Maoism has an appeal because it's programmatic.

With the Trots, you might spend a lot of time sitting around theorizing. That's the cliche anyways. With Maoism, the time for discussion is over! *slams fist on table* You've got a plan so you just need the ingredients and you're ready to bake. Now whether the conditions of early 20th century China correspond to 21st century America, I dunno...

Red Guards suffers from (I guess the term is) ultra-leftism, as Lenin would put it. "Overestimating the current level of militancy."

Example: on May Day in Austin, the left groups put on a rally and had their own antifa there, and a small far-right counter-protest showed up, but they were vastly outnumbered so there were no problems. Red Guards wouldn't have it, though, and took off on a march through downtown wearing their red masks, got jumped by a larger far-right group (that included neo-Nazis) that was roving around, and which pinned the Maoists up against a fence.

One of the Maoists was assaulted, they had no backup, and the police had to escort them out. This is a group that previously showed up to BLM events, dumped a dead pig's head (I'm presuming bought from a meat market) on the ground while chanting things such as "oink oink bang bang." Total disaster.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
I mean, the Red Guards specifically come from people who went mad with power from an overturning of the social order and proceeded to violently punish anyone who looked at them funny and set themselves and their children up for life in the new order. Not surprising they're the ones always taking things too far.

Not that it's really a big problem because doing literally anything the Right doesn't like gets you labelled a commiehomonazi anyway.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
the maoists got lf shut down by generally being embarassing

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Al! posted:

the maoists got lf shut down by generally being embarassing

I thought it was because they put an automated turret outside Obama's door that made it impossible for him to leave the oval office.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 28 days!)

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

I don't know why Texas and Maoists go together

It's because Mao spoke at a 4th Grade reading level. Mao was the Trump of Communism.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
I saw this one Infowars video like a year before the election where Red Guards was getting into it with some anti-abortion protesters. Alex Jones was there and yelled at one of the Maoists "do you want to kill babies!?" And this deadlocked Maoist girl went "Hell yeah I kill my kids!"

I lolled but also, like, goddamn.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 28 days!)

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

I saw this one Infowars video like a year before the election where Red Guards was getting into it with some anti-abortion protesters. Alex Jones was there and yelled at one of the Maoists "do you want to kill babies!?" And this deadlocked Maoist girl went "Hell yeah I kill my kids!"

I lolled but also, like, goddamn.

The more you talk about them the more I like 'em.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Depends on where you live, some states don't like that M word

Weirdly, here in AZ, they are the John Brown Gun Club.

I guess despite being a right wing Hell Hole filled with honest to gently caress prepper militia nutters, we don't like the actual word militia.

SEX HAVER 40000
Aug 6, 2009

no doves fly here lol
John Brown Gun Club is entirely separate from John Brown Militia. Militia doesn't know what they're doing, Gun Club and their sister org Redneck Revolt are extremely legit.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 28 days!)

The Ian Miles Cheong lore is deep and sordid

https://twitter.com/rubblewoman/status/906113092257554432
https://twitter.com/rubblewoman/status/906113652205420544
https://twitter.com/2dAmMuslim/status/906115503701336064
https://twitter.com/2dAmMuslim/status/906116239201894400

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4pFEAhO13I

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012
https://twitter.com/JayChpJones/status/906121060826963968

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 28 days!)


He's not wrong.

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

He's not wrong.

https://twitter.com/JayChpJones/status/906120719989444609

Thunder God Biden
Sep 8, 2004


Israel is not a legitimate entity, and no amount of pressure can force us to recognize its right to exist.



Love too not include Fox News

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



rudatron posted:

Point out that the uk left India because they knew they'd get killed of they didn't, behind Gandhi were a lot of very violent people, and also point out that MLK was tarred as violent, but that the current liberal sanitized image of him is 100% the result of a ideological campaign to write Malcolm X out of history entirely

i'm seconding this. framing the civil rights movement correctly as a show of force and scaring white people into giving PoCs rights is a good way to approach this. if they went full MLK (nonviolent protest and sit ins), they would have been ignored. if they went full Malcom X, they would have been shot dead in the streets. you need a diversity of tactics and as history has shown, the status quo won't change unless there's a threat of force (direct action, violence, striking, etc). in framing it to them, they need the extremists (antifa, DSA, etc) to get a compromise that favors the middle (them)

basically, don't radicalize libs directly into the black bloc, get them talking to leftists and open that door for conversation (because they'll be a lot more receptive once they realize the left isnt a gaggle of miniature stalins)

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

rudatron posted:

also point out that MLK was tarred as violent, but that the current liberal sanitized image of him is 100% the result of a ideological campaign to write Malcolm X out of history entirely

Hey, that's not true!

It was also about writing Stokley Carmichael and other black firebrands out of history.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

Business Gorillas posted:

i'm seconding this. framing the civil rights movement correctly as a show of force and scaring white people into giving PoCs rights is a good way to approach this. if they went full MLK (nonviolent protest and sit ins), they would have been ignored. if they went full Malcom X, they would have been shot dead in the streets. you need a diversity of tactics and as history has shown, the status quo won't change unless there's a threat of force (direct action, violence, striking, etc). in framing it to them, they need the extremists (antifa, DSA, etc) to get a compromise that favors the middle (them)

basically, don't radicalize libs directly into the black bloc, get them talking to leftists and open that door for conversation (because they'll be a lot more receptive once they realize the left isnt a gaggle of miniature stalins)

i remember the only time MLK being referred to as a Socialist was early 00's online Conservative dipshits using it as an insult (followed by that loving picture of him "IN CUMMIE SKOOL :downs:")

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Corny
Feb 18, 2006

i am scared
https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/905768225023123460

https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/905769537521553408

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/905588586304688130

https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/905591161125040128

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/905594603411300353

this was a loving wild ride

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